Hillsborough Mayor Jenn Weaver joins 97.9 The Hill’s Brighton McConnell on Tuesday, January 11. She details what the recent push for COVID-19 tests in Hillsborough has looked like and what the county government is doing to change that. Plus: the town’s Board of Commissioners holds its first meeting of the year and Martin Luther King Jr. Day has a full slate of events.
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